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Ulcombe

Ulcombe is a village and civil parish near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England.

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Ulcombe is a village and civil parish near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England. The name is recorded in the Domesday Book and is thought to derive from 'Owl-coomb': 'coomb' meaning 'a deep little wooded valley; a hollow in a hill side' in Old English. The original deserted Medieval village site lies to the east of the parish church in a valley. There is also a water-mill below this site, probably of early origins. It stands below the Greensand Way.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ulcombe

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Leeds Castle

    Leeds Castle is a castle in Kent, England, 7 miles southeast of Maidstone. It is built on islands in a lake formed by the River Len to the east of the village of Leeds and is a historic Grade I listed estate.

    3.6 km · castle in Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sutton Valence Castle

    Sutton Valence Castle is a ruined medieval fortification in the village of Sutton Valence in Kent, England. Overlooking a strategic route to the coast, the original castle probably comprised an inner and an outer bailey and a protective barbican, with a three-storey high keep on its southern side.

    3.2 km · castle in Sutton Valence, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints Church, Ulcombe

    All Saints is a parish church in Ulcombe, Kent. It was begun in the 12th century and is a Grade I listed building.

    0 m · church in Ulcombe · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Boughton Place

    Boughton Place, formerly Bocton Place or Bocton Hall, is a country house in Boughton Malherbe, Kent, England.

    3.5 km · country house in Boughton Malherbe, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Peter's and St Paul's Church, East Sutton

    St Peter's and St Paul's Church is a parish church in Church Lane, East Sutton, Kent dedicated to saints Peter and Paul. It was begun in the mid-13th century or earlier and additions were made in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.

    1.9 km · Grade I listed church in East Sutton, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Ulcombe

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 58 km · London Stansted (STN), 79 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 82 km
Stations
Harrietsham railway station, 3.7 km
  • London → Ulcombe
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £7–9
  • London, Essex → Ulcombe
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Ulcombe
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ulcombe

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ulcombe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundIt is signed throughout although its quality is variable, with a mix of cycle tracks, quiet roads and a few off-road sections.

From Wikivoyage: Kent, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    149 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    370 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    373 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    618 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    653 km

If you know how people move in Ulcombe – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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